Edmund Burke: “Strong passion under the direction of a feeble reason feeds a low fever, which serves only to destroy the body that…”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.